Annecy

Swiss animation director Marcel Barelli talks to Zippy Frames on his latest animation short, Dans la nature, on nature and homophobia, to premiere at Annecy Festival 2021 -in our series of Swiss Animation Portraits 2021.

Vassilis Kroustallis writes about the ever-growing demand for a celebratory attitude of animation festivals- which relegates their animation film content to the background.

Kropka talks to the director of My Favorite War, Ilze Burkowska-Jacobsen, which won the Contrechamp competition at Annecy Festival.

A VR animation project on immigration and displacement. More info on the Dislocation project by Veljko Popovic and Milivoj Popovic.

Based on The Hangman at Home by Carl Sandburg, this is an XR project by the duo of Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot.

Mikhail Gurevich talks to the Russian director, animator and designer Kirill Khachaturov about his short film, Naked.

The US independent artist moves from the pitch-perfect black comedy of depression in Rocks in My Pockets to a new feature animated project.